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Killjoy_Cutter: Will keep digging into the issue, but for now, I can play without the game phoning home.
Hi!

Sorry for the problem. This definitively shouldn't work like this. Does your firewall show the domain name? Alternatively, could you give me the IP address? I could try checking what services run there, which would help us with reproducing and fixing this problem.

Liosan
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Liosan: Hi!...
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toxicTom: I still think the problem is on the side of Harebrained/Paradox. The network stack of Windows has always been a bit wonky and full of traps (like getting "I have network" from the OS but then failing when accessing it...). I bet they forgot some try/catch in a crucial place.
Hi,

could be, but
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Killjoy_Cutter: The Windows crash report indicates that it is an APPCRASH linked to Galaxy64.dll.
tells me we should take a look :)

Liosan
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Liosan: tells me we should take a look :)

Liosan
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toxicTom: Overlooked that part... kind of beats me though why a game would use Galaxy functions to "phone home".
In general, we are aiming at:
- if you run a game via Galaxy, it should have multiplayer, achievements etc - depending on how the developer used GOG Galaxy
- if you don't have Galaxy running and launch the game directly, for example via a shortcut, the game should not do anything of that sort, all Galaxy features should be turned off

If you use Galaxy but block ports or addresses via firewall - the Galaxy implementation in the game will try to connect to GOG services, and fail. Maybe this is happening here. Of course, the game shouldn't crash when failing to connect :)

Liosan
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Killjoy_Cutter: I don't have Galaxy installed at all.

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Liosan:
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Killjoy_Cutter: I also sent in a support request with this same problem, but for your reference, here's the info (...)
Thanks! Sorry, I didn't notice lack of Galaxy in your initial post. One more detail - could you tell us what firewall you are using?

We're currently investigating this issue, but we're unable to reproduce this yet.

FYI, this is an AWS service aiding with DNS resolution.

Liosan